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Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit

… Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 Model instrument of … TO THE THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS ADOPTED ON 8 DECEMBER 2005 …

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O, Humanitarian coordination bodies, 1921- ongoing, 127 metres of shelf space

… rédigée par Fabrizio Bensi. Règles ou conventions Inventaire conforme à la norme … on the grounds of the Parc Mon-Repos (Geneva), made available to the Institute through the City of Geneva and renovated through a grant made in …

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Customary international humanitarian law: Questions and answers

… international law. Treaties, such as the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, are written conventions … add to existing treaty law? While the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 have been ratified …

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Guidelines on the use of the name and image of the ICRC by providers of goods and services

… is any use not expressly authorized by the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols. 6. …

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The ICRC in WWI: Efforts to ban chemical warfare

… issue, the call helped bring about the 1925 Geneva Protocol – still in force today. Battle … invoked the Regulations annexed to the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 respecting the … ICRC efforts Encouraging responses reached Geneva – in particular from the Danish, …

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Occupation and international humanitarian law: Questions and answers

… According to their common Article 2, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 apply to any territory … in the ICRC's Commentary to the Fourth Geneva Convention (1958). An alternative and …

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How "grave breaches" are defined in the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols

… The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977 … ] 2. Acts described as grave breaches in the Conventions are grave breaches of this … of other protective signs recognized by the Conventions or this Protocol. 4. In addition …

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1980 Convention on certain conventional weapons and its protocols -Ratification kit

… (with Protocols I, II and III) was adopted at Geneva on 10 October 1980, WHEREAS the State … (with Protocols I, II and III) was adopted at Geneva on 10 October 1980, WHEREAS Review …

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General and specific protection of women under international humanitarian law

… in situations of armed conflict. KEY GC = Geneva Convention AP = Additional Protocol ICC …

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1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 – Ratification kit

… 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 - Ratification kit - … to the two Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the …

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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.

IHL treaties

International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.

Customary IHL

Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.